tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post5156940014666995825..comments2015-08-02T04:08:05.983-07:00Comments on Lost Live Dead: Greynolds Park Love-In, North Miami Beach, FL April 14, 1968 Grateful Dead/Blues ImageCorry342http://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-21756126222488195752015-07-23T00:12:24.229-07:002015-07-23T00:12:24.229-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Miami Party Rentalshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08112886831809390516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-46305124361139450662014-11-18T14:26:51.265-08:002014-11-18T14:26:51.265-08:00Sorry, I forgot the link. http://www.doors.com/mia...Sorry, I forgot the link. http://www.doors.com/miami/one.htmlevolveknowhowhttp://evolveknowhow.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-18508490763125656172014-11-18T14:24:17.791-08:002014-11-18T14:24:17.791-08:00By the way, Ken Collier was also the person who or...By the way, Ken Collier was also the person who orchestrated the infamous Doors&#39; concert at Dinner Key Auditorium. I know because I was there. Collier oversold the event by about 2,000 tickets. Talk about a huge sardine can. You couldn&#39;t even walk around. Jim Morrison was accused of exposing himself (he didn&#39;t; he only touched himself suggestively). Months later I was at a local night club when Morrison was back in town for court. He was dancing with a girlfriend of mine and I didn&#39;t even know who it was because he had gotten quite burly and was unshaven. He used to be quite the Adonis. It was really sad to see him that way. (... The Incident<br /><br />The Dinner Key Auditorium was situated strategically across the parking lot from City Hall in Coconut Grove. Ken Collier, doing-business-as Thee Image Productions, had lured The Doors away from the university hall with a deal for more money. The building was a converted seaplane hanger in general disrepair, with an official seating capacity of seven thousand. The Doors were contracted for a flat twenty-five thousand dollars, based on what they understood to be an auditorium with a forty two-thousand dollar maximum. After the contract was signed, Collier took out the seats and sold several thousand more tickets, nearly doubling the maximum. ...)evolveknowhowhttp://evolveknowhow.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-13293630080032276472014-11-18T14:04:12.589-08:002014-11-18T14:04:12.589-08:00These dates are wrong. I worked at Thee Image bef...These dates are wrong. I worked at Thee Image before it opened (clearing the former bowling alley of its alleys), during the late 1960s. I was there for the opening night, featuring 3 nights in a row (Friday, Saturday and sunday) of the Mothers of Invention. I met everyone in the band. Frank Zappa would not get high and party after hours. I saw many more bands there, and was there when The Cream played on Thursday before Good Friday, and Easter week. It was a TBA concert, with no one on the playbill that night. I saw the place packed based on word of mouth. It was SRO, and then some (800 bodies). The following three nights (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) were the Grateful Dead. I saw them get chewed out by Ken Collier because the club had only about 30 people in it. Though The Dead&#39;s song, &quot;Morning Dew&quot; was on the radio, it didn&#39;t help sales at all. I also went to the recording stdio with them the following week (Anthem of the Sun was played at Criteria Recording Studios). We just hung out. The next weekend, The Dead played an additional three nights in a row. It was an amazing experience, to say the least. You said: (&quot;In 1970, Thee Experience closed, and Brevitz replaced it with a venue called Thee Club, with his signature &quot;Thee&quot; intact. Thee Club was somewhat ahead of its time, an upscale restaurant and rock club, but the rock market was not ready for it. Still, Brevitz opened Thee Club with an appropriate bang, bringing in the acoustic Grateful Dead to open the venue on August 28, 1970....&quot;)evolveknowhowhttp://evolveknowhow.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-24835262906939844092014-04-03T17:40:25.991-07:002014-04-03T17:40:25.991-07:00Gallivan, thanks very much for the eyewitness acco...Gallivan, thanks very much for the eyewitness account.<br /><br />Indeed, there was a lot more to the story of Miami and Thee Image. I took a crack at it here<br />http://rockprosopography101.blogspot.com/2009/12/thee-image-and-miami-rock-scene-march.html<br /><br />there&#39;s a great Comment thread, too, still ongoing as people keep Flashing Back.Corry342http://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-39595403706012643262014-04-03T17:35:48.199-07:002014-04-03T17:35:48.199-07:00As a Miami hippie I was at the opening of Thee Ima...As a Miami hippie I was at the opening of Thee Image, The Mothers of Invention were the headliners. Zappa kept grinding cigarettes out on the brand new stage, commenting, &quot;This&#39;ll be a fine little club if you ever get it finished.&quot; Not mentioned here as far as I can tell is that Thee Image was preceded by Thee Experience around the corner on 163rd St. Also owned by Marshall Brevitz, but with Tito &amp; Anthony Cacace as partners. Tito &amp; Anthony had opened, &quot;The Mushroom,&quot;: a much-busted head-shop and hangout in 1067, after a visit to Milbrook, N.Y. headquarters of Tim Leary. The weekly Love-In in Greynolds Park were a gas - lots of woods and lagoons to get lost in etc. until they were subject to a forced move to a sun-blasted open field (not long after this Dead gig) where the police could keep an eye on everyone. Two months later, in June, I said &quot;goodbye&quot; and headed to Berkeley.Gallivan Burwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10439036620033128282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-83199362424137136232014-03-23T09:38:10.339-07:002014-03-23T09:38:10.339-07:00Nice to get confirmation of all this. I&#39;m pret...Nice to get confirmation of all this. I&#39;m pretty certain that the week inbetween was when the band went into Criteria Studios in Miami to attempt to remix Anthem Of The Sun. I think nothing came of it, but they were there. Criteria was a legendary studio in its own right, but it didn&#39;t seem to exert any influence on Anthem.Corry342http://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-12077639836861953542014-03-23T08:57:13.223-07:002014-03-23T08:57:13.223-07:00I had a chance to go through some Miami Heralds. S...I had a chance to go through some Miami Heralds. Such square town in those days. All bankers and ad men in leisure suits. Here&#39;s some color from the Greynolds event, Easter Sunday, 4/14/68.<br /><br />Toner, Mike. 1968. 3,000 Tune In, Turn On for Love-In. Miami Herald, April 15, 1968, pp. 1, 2A.<br /><br />Lots of talk about the variety of the genus <i>homo hippicus</i> and its members&#39; quirky ways. <br /><br /><br />A Dade sherrifs officers squinted at the haze of smoke drifting skyward and said, &quot;We know they&#39;re smoking it, you can smell it in the air, but we&#39;re not going to make any arrests for possession of marijuana. There&#39;s only two of us, and there&#39;s thousands of them. Most of them dress pretty crazy, but so far they&#39;ve been pretty peaceful,&quot; he said.<br /><br />He discuss the six-man GD livelying things up. The group hauled a three foot Chinese gong out for the first number ... &quot;Morning Dew&quot; or &quot;Viola Lee Blues&quot; might both have called for one ... wow, either would have been a wake-up call, indeed, on far distant quadrants of emotional space.<br /><br />Anyway, there&#39;s a little more color. Sounds like a good time.JGMFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-19324632742898233252014-03-23T08:44:40.150-07:002014-03-23T08:44:40.150-07:00Oh, and The Bangles.Oh, and The Bangles.JGMFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-36060484683398445192014-03-23T08:43:33.525-07:002014-03-23T08:43:33.525-07:00Corry, this is a striking use of simple direct obs...Corry, this is a striking use of simple direct observation (&quot;held over&quot; on the poster) and inference based on your vast understanding of the music biz around this time. I love how confident you are that the GD played the prior weekend.<br /><br />And, indeed, I have evidence for those shows, totally QED in my mind.<br /><br /><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7TAYus5LRzuaFhvcERLci1vQ1U/edit?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow">ad from Miami Herald for 4/12/68 at Thee Image</a>. Same ad appeared all three nights. I have page numbers for the next nights, not this one, but it was the 4/12/68 Miami Herald.<br /><br />Opening are The Kollection and Blues Image.<br /><br />Not that there was any question, but QED.JGMFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-57291873098660782402013-07-28T08:02:12.404-07:002013-07-28T08:02:12.404-07:00There must also have been plenty of people who saw...There must also have been plenty of people who saw them and were not so impressed. I have read one account from someone who went to the Toronto &#39;67 shows and thought the Dead were a minor hippie warmup act while the Airplane were an awesome revelation. <br /><br />What accounts we do have of the early Dead, though, are definitely biased in favor of those who were really impressed enough to be posting about them decades later! Thousands of people did see the Dead in the &#39;60s, after all, but few left us accounts.Light Into Asheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-32473062206511122232013-07-27T07:01:15.595-07:002013-07-27T07:01:15.595-07:00Thanks, LIA, this is a great find. I think the ear...Thanks, LIA, this is a great find. I think the early Grateful Dead were an overhelming experience for the unitiated. The audiences must have often been quite small, so our eyewitness accounts are few.Corry342http://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-76086983660941930152013-07-27T06:10:17.368-07:002013-07-27T06:10:17.368-07:00(continued)
&quot;It was the first (and only) ti...(continued) <br /><br />&quot;It was the first (and only) time I heard them so I have a hard time trying to recall the set lists. I had no grid for what I was seeing/hearing. In general the first set was a lot of the first album and the second set was Anthem of the Sun but I am almost certain there was a version of Dark Star thrown in because I distinctly recall the interlude and some of the unique percussion... I have always distinctly remembered the &quot;scraper&quot; thing and gong from their performance and Dark Star is the only possibility. But I was always doubtful because I did not recall anything as &quot;moody&#39; as Dark Star from that night. However, I also just listened to the 3-16-1968 Carousel Dark Star and it is a much faster tempo with a different feel to it. If they played Dark Star with the faster tempo in Miami that would explain why it did not stand out from the rest of the set. The whole second set was played at an incredible pace - much like The Eleven from the 3-30-68 Carousel... <br />One song I am sure they played was Alligator...that song stuck in memory. And of course the drums stood out on Alligator...<br />It was a small crowd so I haven&#39;t found anyone else who attended the Miami shows other than my cousin who was with me.&quot;<br /><br />(A couple comments - another early showgoer on the Archive also remembered Kreutzmann with the incense stick on his cymbal in those days. There are also plenty of photos - and a snatch of film from Newport &#39;68 - of Garcia standing on the edge of the stage during the jams, something he apparently stopped doing after 1970 or so.)<br /><br />PS - Another witness on setlists.net recalls that the Greynolds Park Love-In show was &quot;a 4-hour free show...they played on a flatbed truck before several thousand - a very good show.&quot;Light Into Asheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-32336637516470700362013-07-27T06:09:17.665-07:002013-07-27T06:09:17.665-07:00Some time ago, a poster on the Archive (GatorGuy) ...Some time ago, a poster on the Archive (GatorGuy) wrote a description of seeing the Dead at Thee Image; I&#39;ll quote his comments: <br /><br />&quot;It was an incredible experience that I have never forgotten. It changed my music tastes forever. It was like nothing we had ever heard and it will always represent the &quot;real&quot; Dead and SF sound to me. As best as I can recall the first set was mostly the first album and the second set was Anthem stuff. <br />If you don&#39;t know, Thee Image was a small bowling alley with the lanes and equipment removed. There are very few photos of it floating around. It was just across the road from the ocean. The stage was only a couple feet high because of the low ceiling and it was a small crowd - maybe 150 max. So it was like being at a local band concert. We were only few feet from the stage. <br />During the set break I think it was Hart who came back into the room we were hanging out in and he spent the break sitting on the floor talking to a girl... During the break the Dead hung around just off to the side of the stage. We could have had a personal audience with them if we had wanted! We could also have partied with them on the beach according to Lesh&#39;s biography. Missed opportunities - or dodged bullets. <br />The other two images that stick in my mind are Kreutzmann putting an incense stick on his high cymbol and never taking his eyes off it the entire second set. The other image is of Garcia standing on the edge of the stage doing his thing for what was the longest non-stop music we had ever heard. <br />We missed the free concert in Grenolds Park - the local SF imitation. The Blues Image was the house band. A lot of great &quot;underground&quot; bands played The Image... It had the standard overhead projector colored water light show behind the band with silent movies and whatever being shown on the side walls. <br />Like I said before, this was my first real exposure to anything like this and it was a lot to absorb in a few hours. The So FL music scene was pretty active and progressive compared to a lot of the country (it wasn’t all beach music) and I had roadied for my cousin’s bands that covered Vanilla Fudge, The Doors etc, but we didn’t even suspect what we were about to encounter. We went to Thee Image only on the advice of someone else. We had never even heard of the Grateful Dead and tried to not make the name of the band too explicit when I told my parent where we were headed... <br />I think Jerry was really on it the night we went. Incredibly quick and constant with very few &quot;resting spots&quot; during his licks. It was a incredible non-stop flow that I never forgot. Not just fast but moving. Thee Image was an emptied out bowling alley with a low temporary stage so the acoustics were terrible and Pig Pen and Weir were buried in the noise as well as most of the vocals.&quot; Light Into Asheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-82415934618983191502012-06-25T11:47:06.610-07:002012-06-25T11:47:06.610-07:00http://ionamiller.weebly.com/sunset-strip.html
He...http://ionamiller.weebly.com/sunset-strip.html<br /><br />Here, between Stanley and Curson, was a big club called The Experience. They had food here and ice-cream. This club was famous as a jam hangout---musicians who were in town playing bigger concerts elsewhere would come here after their shows or on the nights they were off to jam. I&#39;ve been hoping to make the Teaszer conducive to impromptu jams, but it seems musicians today just aren&#39;t into jamming. A shame. Hendrix jammed here all the time. There were always famous celebrities in the audience. There was a big picture of Hendrix (on the exterior front wall of the club), and his mouth was the front door---you&#39;d walk in through his mouth!<br /><br />The big summer for The Experience was &#39;69; it was probably here for a year-and-a-half, two years, maybe. I remember jamming here with some of the Quicksilver Messenger Service. The Blues Magoos played here on their way down; Alice Cooper played here on their way up---got booed off the stage.Jerry's Brokendown Palaceshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06451361448230329754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-5863210681973602702011-01-29T18:28:21.763-08:002011-01-29T18:28:21.763-08:00I was at Thee Image for the gig. I don&#39;t reme...I was at Thee Image for the gig. I don&#39;t remember which night, I was 17 at the time.<br /><br />My cousin and I sat in a circle on the floor with about 10 people passing ..... The announcer introduced the Grateful Dead and the guys we were with all stood up and went on stage.NewHampsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00552817391684167116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-27843775947237848252009-12-13T06:58:33.831-08:002009-12-13T06:58:33.831-08:00Wonderful post!Wonderful post!Jerry Garcia's Middle Fingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.com